Friday, 6 January 2017

A short story by TOM MACINTYRE An Irish writer Is invited to an American university to give a reading of his poetry. It turns out to be a nightmare experience. Read by T.P. McKennaProducer CHERRY COOKSON

Brendan Bracken was born In County Tipperary in 1901, we son of a notorious Fenian agitator. The play tells of his meteoric rise to power in the British Establishment and his eventual ennoblement as Viscount Bracken of Christchurch.

Two English gentlemen, one boasting of his money, the other of his breeding, decide to settle with their Irish mistresses in the beautiful Irish countryside. Unfortunately for them, neither money nor breeding is any match for the wit and guile displayed by the native Irish. The results are both hilarious and tragic.

An enquiry by Ann Mann with the help of Brian Boydell , Marie Goossens , John Kelly , Brendan Kennelly , Ronald Schuchard and Michael Yeats and Grainne Yeats Mr Yeats himself is, on his own confession, completely insensitive to music. If he were not, a great many settings of his poems - which, since they are to be had in print, have presumably been passed by his censor, would cause him considerable pain. (PETER WARLOCK, 1922) with and SHEILA GRANT , PAUL GREGORY and IAN THOMPSON as the other voices Music played by CARL DOLMETSCH (psaltery) and ANN collis (percussion) Producer piers PLOWRIGHT

Cecil Lewis - aviator, BBC founder, journalist, author and a sprightly 93 - pays affectionate homage to his early mentor, the versatile pre-Raphaelite Charles Ricketts. Drawing on their correspondence, his own vivid memories and other accounts, he recreates the excitement and sense of revelation of a bright young man who found himself the friend of men like Ricketts and Shaw.